FY14 ACQUISITION RESEARCH PROGRAM | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The FY14 Acquisition Research Program (ARP), published as Funding Opportunity Number NPS BAA 14 002 by the Naval Supply Systems Command, is a discretionary government grant and cooperative agreement opportunity meant to grow high-quality, publishable research that strengthens public policy and management knowledge in the area of government acquisition. Rather than funding narrowly tailored studies intended to solve a single Department of Defense (DOD) problem, the program emphasizes scholarship that contributes to broadly useful theory, evidence, and research methods that can inform acquisition-related decision-making in many settings, including outside the DOD. In practical terms, ARP is looking for academic-style research that advances the field, improves how people understand acquisition systems, and produces findings that are valuable to the wider public and private sector.

The program invites proposals across a wide set of disciplines that intersect with acquisition and public management. Alongside traditional acquisition topics such as contracting, program and project management, logistics, test and evaluation, and systems engineering management, ARP explicitly welcomes research grounded in economics, finance and financial management, information systems, organizational theory, operations management, human resources management, risk management, and marketing. This signals that ARP views acquisition as a complex enterprise that blends policy, incentives, organizational behavior, operational execution, and technology management, and it is open to interdisciplinary approaches that treat acquisition as a socio-technical system rather than only a contracting function.

A central requirement is that the resulting work must be unclassified and non-proprietary, with findings suitable for publication in open scholarly literature. In other words, the government is not seeking restricted deliverables, sensitive datasets that cannot be shared, or conclusions that cannot be disseminated publicly. The intent is to support research that strengthens the overall evidence base for acquisition practices and policy, with transparent methods and results that can be scrutinized, replicated, debated, and built upon by the broader research community.

The opportunity is categorized under Science and Technology and other Research and Development and is associated with CFDA 12.300 (Basic and Applied Scientific Research). The funding instruments available are grants and cooperative agreements, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement stated. The announcement was posted May 5, 2014, with an original and current closing date of September 30, 2014, and an archive date of October 30, 2014.

Eligibility is aimed at non-federal research performers. All responsible sources from U.S. academia, U.S. research institutions, laboratories outside the U.S. federal government, and accredited foreign universities may apply. At the same time, several categories are explicitly excluded from receiving awards under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA): Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), including Department of Energy National Laboratories, are not eligible; U.S. government schools of higher education, Navy laboratories and warfare centers, and other DOD or civilian agency laboratories are also not eligible to receive awards and should not submit white papers or full proposals directly. Organizations in those excluded categories that still want to participate are directed to coordinate through the technical point of contact (arp@nps.edu). University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) are generally eligible unless their specific DOD UARC contract prohibits applying.

From a project execution standpoint, ARP places primary responsibility on the proposing team for the design, management, direction, and conduct of the research. This means investigators are expected to exercise independent judgment and original thought, proposing rigorous approaches within broad topical parameters rather than simply performing a tightly specified government-defined study. The overarching expectation is scholarly merit and relevance: research should deepen understanding of acquisition-related processes, systems, and policies while also producing insights that can generalize beyond DOD-specific contexts.

For administrative and access questions, the listing notes a business point of contact (Contract and Grant Officer Janet Norton) for assistance with accessing the full announcement electronically, and it references an additional information link to NPS BAAs for broader context and related solicitations.

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